FOOD

Breakfast in Samoa will normally include some sort of root vegetable like Yam,Sweet potato and Taro all so popular are Samoan pancakes witch usually have mashed bananas In them. Samoans usually eat much the same as breakfast. For dinner its usually umu but their favorites are coconut cream and corn beef.

SPORT

The national sport of western Samoa is Kirikiti. This is a weird version of cricket played with rules that seem to change the game. The balls are handmade out of rubber and Pandanus leaves. A three sided bat is used means that know one knows where ball will go.

† POPULATION ¢

There are 214,000 people in

SAMOA since the Tsunami

Struck samoa.

SAMOA

CULTUREVisitors will find an entirely different time in Samoa. If a Samoan agrees to meet you at 9.00 am you may be waiting until noon, three hours being a perfectly acceptable amount of lateness in the islands.

Traditional Samoan music is very beautiful but their love songs are more popular.

ClothesSamoans usually were Lavalava’s like the picture below.

Men and Women can where Lavalavas.

ARTSamoans make Tapa clothes like the one at the top.

Samoan tattoo’s are really traditional to Samoa.